CYC 900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cyc, Structural Violence, Inuit

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 900
• Professor: Beverley jean daniel

Document Summary

Take children away from parents and groom them to become like the europeans. Controlling who they communicate with and how. Indigenous children are taken out of homes easier than white children. Construction of first nations, metis, and inuit families as abusive and dysfunctional to justify removal of children. The role of colonization and colonial ideologies in dismantling families. The tendency on the part of members of society to examine these issues as individual interactions rather than systemic practices. Constructions of white families as perfect and as saviours. Loss of historical, political, and racial identity. Higher rates of justice involvement, drug addiction, mental health challenges, trauma and abuse. Develop a broader understanding of the systemic issues.